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ITU receives two Danish Data Science Academy Fellowships

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26 June, 2025

Each year, the DDSA awards a total of 10 PhDs, and 6 postdocs. This year, ITU has secured two – Nils Grünefeld who will undertake a PhD in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing, and Ola Rønning will begin a postdoc project in Probabilistic Programming.

ITU researcher secures grant to improve safety of AI systems

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19 March, 2025

At Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in Japan, Associate Professor Alessandro Bruni from ITU is currently conducting research on the mathematical foundation for developing verifiably correct machine learning frameworks. The project is supported by the Carlsberg Foundation.

New research project to find a more inclusive way to develop algorithms

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10 February, 2025

Associate Professor Veronika Cheplygina has received a Novo Nordisk Data Science Investigator Grant of almost DKK 11 million. The grant will fund research on how more inclusive teaching and research environments may lead to better algorithms for medical imaging.

New ITU research analyses attacks on Large Language Models

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16 January, 2025

What are the intentions and profile of someone trying to use LLMs for malicious purposes? And how do they do it? In a new study, researchers from ITU define so-called “red teaming” of LLMs to enable better security in the future.

Video: Is artificial intelligence the key to human consciousness?

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12 November, 2024

"Our future is going to look like science fiction." Associate professor at IT University of Copenhagen, Paolo Burelli, uses artificial intelligence to approach a better understanding of the human brain and consciousness.

ITU researcher develops software to secure Large Language Models

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26 September, 2024

As Large Language Models (LLMs) are deployed in thousands of applications, the need for scalable evaluation of how models respond to malicious attacks grows rapidly. ITU Associate Professor Leon Derczynski has developed the hitherto most comprehensive tool for the task.

Video: Can Artificial Intelligence be trusted?

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18 June, 2024

Artificial intelligence or advanced algorithm? ITU researcher Nanna Inie focuses on how we talk about artificial intelligence in the public debate and which consequences it has for our understanding of the technology when it is described with human characteristics.

AI driven job matching has a bias problem, new ITU research tackles the issue

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7 May, 2024

Algorithms are far from objective. In a new three-year industry partnership with Jobindex, ITU Associate Professor Toine Bogers and Postdoc Mesut Kaya will work to develop job and candidate recommendation algorithms that take multi-sided fairness into account.

ITU researcher secures Carlsberg Foundation grant for query optimisation

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20 February, 2024

Associate Professor Zoi Kaoudi from IT University’s Computer Science Department has secured approximately five million kroner for research in query optimisation.

Grant: ITU researcher working for transparency in training data for AI

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24 January, 2024

Assistant Professor at IT University of Copenhagen’s Computer Science Department, Anna Rogers, has just secured a prestigious 940 000-euro Villum Young Investigator grant for a research project aimed at developing new methods for identifying references to language model training data.

ITU researcher receives funding to improve human-centered AI

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6 November, 2023

PhD student at IT University of Copenhagen’s Department of Computer Science Elisa Bassignana has received an International Postdoc grant from Villum Fonden to gain a better understanding of how large language systems are encoded with social, cultural, demographically defined information and values.

Three ITU projects selected for NordForsk policy brief collection on how we reach the sustainability targets

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2 October, 2023

The IT University of Copenhagen is well represented in a collection of policy briefs, which have recently been published by the Nordic Council of Ministers’ research programme, NordForsk.

ITU researcher: Generative AI needs a reality check

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23 June, 2023

Assistant Professor in Computer Science, Anna Rogers, is a new face at IT University of Copenhagen. She conducts research on Natural Language Processing (NLP), and her research makes it easier to determine whether Transformer-based language models, which are used in systems like ChatGPT, are reliable or not.

PhD Ieva Daukantas has been accepted for a research stay abroad at Stanford University

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8 June, 2023

Ieva Daukantas is working on her PhD in Information Security at ITU, and at the moment she is a visiting researcher at Stanford University, USA. She investigates formal methods and proofs for security guarantees in machine learning, and she is highly motivated by the fact that her field of research emerges from a high demand in the industry.

Students launch a satellite to test artificial intelligence in space

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12 April, 2023

On April 14, students from ITU will contribute to writing space history. The satellite, DISCO-1, is launched into space and it carries a microcomputer to test artificial intelligence outside the atmosphere. The satellite is developed by the space program, DISCO, which is a collaboration between students from four Danish universities.

Do deepfake videos challenge the integrity of online information?

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7 March, 2023

Deepfakes – highly realistic synthetic audio-video content depicting actual individuals – may potentially increase the dissemination of disinformation online, but research on the phenomenon and how users are affected is sparse. A new research project spearheaded by the IT University’s Human-Centered Data Science research group tackles the issue.

Ambitious EU funded robot research project to ensure sustainable food handling

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20 February, 2023

The EU MOZART project investigates the latest robotic technologies and system solutions to drive the food industry towards economic, social, and environmental sustainability. The project is coordinated by Professor Kasper Støy of the IT University of Copenhagen.

New face at ITU to help build the “Danish embassy of AI”

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6 February, 2023

Associate Professor of Computer Science, Toine Bogers, is a new face at the IT University of Copenhagen. Alongside his work at ITU, he is also the new Chief Scientific Officer of the Pioneer Centre for AI – a collaborative effort between five Danish universities to conduct and facilitate fundamental research in AI.

ITU researcher secures ERC Consolidator grant to develop rapid learning abilities in AI

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13 December, 2022

Professor Sebastian Risi from the IT University’s Digital Design department has received 1.9 million Euros from the European Research Council to develop AI that is capable of adapting to and learning from unforeseen events in a bid to unleash more of the enormous potential of autonomous machines.

Research spinout LAIKA helps creative writers overcome the dreaded writer’s block

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5 December, 2022

Associate Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen, Martin Pichlmair, has spearheaded the development of LAIKA – new artificial intelligence that acts as a helping hand for creative writers struggling to find inspiration. Today, LAIKA is officially launched as a spinout company in collaboration with the ITU Business Unit.

Gaming AI engine developers modl.ai close 8.5-million-euro funding deal

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9 November, 2022

The company, co-founded by Professor at the IT University, Sebastian Risi, tackles complex game development problems with automation and an army of bots.

ITU launches new Center for Digital Play

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24 October, 2022

The new Center for Digital Play at the IT University of Copenhagen will serve as base for research in computer games, creative AI, design, and digital culture.

Can robots help prevent anxiety attacks in children?

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26 April, 2022

Morten Roed Frederiksen from Computer Science at ITU has received 1.6 million kroner from Independent Research Fund Denmark for at research project that aims to make robots better at understanding human emotion. The goal is to create technology that may help children with anxiety.

Professor Sebastian Risi receives grant to develop policy learning with neural networks

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20 April, 2022

Professor in the Digital Design Department at the IT University of Copenhagen, Sebastian Risi, has received a grant of approximately 550,000 Danish kroner for his work on neural cellular automata to grow neural network policies capable of adapting to novel complex reinforcement learning tasks.

New digital tool helps caseworkers navigate complex legislation

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4 October, 2021

A new digital tool may make it easier for companies and caseworkers to comply with the law. The tool, which highlights legal requirements in a given case process, was developed as a part of the recently completed research project Ecoknow and is used by caseworkers in Denmark and Italy.

Professor Profile: Barbara Plank wants to broaden the field of NLP to deal with variability in language use

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24 August, 2021

Barbara Plank has been appointed professor at the Computer Science department at ITU. Her ambition is to broaden the scale of Natural Language Processing and make it more inclusive. She will be giving her inaugural lecture entitled “NLP for everyone” in auditorium 3 at ITU on September 2.

Professor Profile: Sebastian Risi develops AI by having machines play videogames

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4 August, 2021

How do you teach a computer to be creative and adaptive? The same way we humans learn it: by playing games and solving problems. Professor of Digital Design Sebastian Risi uses games to train neural networks for problem solving in the real world. He will give his inaugural lecture entitled "Creative AI: Machines that Play, Adapt, and Create" on August 23.

ITU Summer University will be open to students from other universities

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26 April, 2021

The popular Summer University-programme allows ITU students to reduce the workload of the regular semester by attending courses over the summer. This year, visiting students and foreign exchange students from other universities in Denmark are invited to apply for courses at Summer University. Submit your application before May 14.

Research suggests that predictive modelling is not a good replacement for caseworkers’ assessment at job centres

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22 April, 2021

Using artificial intelligence to predict long term unemployment among welfare seekers can be problematic in practice. That is the conclusion drawn in a new research article entitled “We Would Never Write That Down”: Classifications of Unemployed and Data Challenges for AI published in the proceedings of the ACM on HCI (PACM HCI), as part of the leading international conference on computer supported cooperative work (CSCW 2021).

New IT University cofounded pioneer centre to bolster Danish artificial intelligence research

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9 April, 2021

The pioneer centre, established by the IT University and four other Danish universities, has received DKK 352,4 million in funding to conduct artificial intelligence research focussed on social issues, design, and ethics.

ITU recruits two international researcher profiles with Start Package from Novo Nordisk Foundation

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27 January, 2021

Two uniquely talented, international researchers will be moving to Denmark to continue their careers at the IT University of Copenhagen. The recruitments are supported by Novo Nordisk Foundation's new Start Package grant programme.

The IT University is coordinating new European expert training in underwater robots

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5 October, 2020

In the next four years, professor at the IT University, Andrzej Wasowski, will be leading a new expert training program focusing on the development of /developing underwater robots in order to make them reliable so that we can use them for critical tasks like fighting pollution. The program is funded by an EU grant of 30 mio. DKK.

ITU bachelor's system to identify informative Corona tweets in top rank

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30 September, 2020

Competing with academics and IT professionals from all over the world, Anders Giovanni Møller shared first place in developing a system to identify Corona-related tweets.

ITU professor in Prestigious Journal: Game Technology Can improve AI-Development

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6 August, 2020

Professor Sebastian Risi publishes paper in Nature Machine Intelligence on how to improve training of robots with popular video game technology.

President of Microsoft at ITU: ”We need a breakthrough in technology”

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8 November, 2019

IT students have to figure out how to bring the future of technology and the future of climate together, argues President of Microsoft Brad Smith at an open debate at the IT University of Copenhagen.

Technology as a weapon in the battle against fake news

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13 March, 2019

Algorithms can help us identify false stories, but letting technology be the judge of what is true and false is not without its problems, says Leon Derczynski, a researcher at ITU specializing in automatic detection of fake news and misinformation.

ITU researcher wins Amazon Research Award

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8 March, 2019

Barbara Plank, Associate Professor from ITU’s Natural Language Processing (NLP) research group, has received a prestigious Amazon Research Award (ARA) for her work on improving automatic language understanding, for instance in digital assistants.

Carlsberg funding for research on surgery robots and AI in Danish

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6 December, 2018

The Carlsberg Foundation is funding three projects at ITU, including research on surgery robots and methods for creating better AI solutions in Danish.

Robotic fish teaches itself to swim

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15 August, 2018

Inspired by the black ghost knifefish, two researchers from the IT University of Copenhagen have developed a soft robot that taught itself to swim. By means of an evolutionary algorithm, the artificial fish has discovered a swimming technique resembling that which the knife fish developed through natural evolution.

ITU researcher receives artificial life-award

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6 August, 2018

Associate professor at The IT University of Copenhagen, Sebastian Risi, receives “Distinguished Young Investigator Award.”

AI generates new challenges for Mario

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13 June, 2018

A group of researchers has developed an artificial intelligence algorithm that automatically generates new levels for computer games. The technology opens up for new possibilities for adapting the difficulty of game levels to individual players.

ITU graduates teach AI to turn designs into code – and land international investment

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30 May, 2018

Three ITU graduates have founded Uizard, a startup aiming to make it easy for anyone to build apps or websites. The company has secured $800,000 in funding from a group of investors and received international media attention– before even launching their product.

Machine learning can predict the effect of genetic mutations

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3 April, 2018

Essentially, machine learning is concerned with developing algorithms that can teach a machine to solve problems based on examples, says Associate Professor Jes Frellsen, whose research shows, among other things, that machine learning can be used to predict the effect of genetic mutations.

Young ITU researcher receives EliteForsk travel grant for teaching computers to think strategically

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1 March, 2018

Niels Justesen is awarded a travel grant of DKK 200,000, and plans to travel to both New York and France, to work with some of the leading researchers in computer games and robots.

Teaching computers to understand human language

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13 December, 2017

Despite big advances in machine learning, making computers understand language is still a big challenge. Daniel Varab and his two classmates from Software Development trained a computer program to detect contradictions in texts – a technology that might eventually help us keep track of statements made by politicians and contradictions in the law.

Mia built an artificial brain that knows a barn owl from a stork

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2 November, 2017

As a hobby ornithologist, Mia Pontoppidan wanted a tool for identifying bird species. So in her thesis project from software development at ITU, she investigated how well artificial intelligence (AI) could classify Danish birds – and whether you can build a neural network with only a year and a half’s worth of coding experience.

Researchers are training a deep learning algorithm to beat humans at StarCraft

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4 October, 2017

Computers have already crushed humans at chess, Go and poker. Now, researchers at the IT University of Copenhagen are training an algorithm to beat the best human players in the sci-fi computer game StarCraft. If the project succeeds, it will be another quantum leap forward for artificial intelligence (AI).

Can AI prevent relapse among drug addicts?

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16 August, 2017

In his thesis project, ITU student Christopher Bjerre developed a software tool for use in addiction treatment. Using a combination of machine learning algorithms, the tool can predict relapse with great accuracy and thus help rehabilitation staff to prevent it from happening.

CAST IT: Technology And The Future Of Humanity

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29 June, 2017

What are the potential dangers associated with emerging technologies? Thore Husfeldt discusses this question with Swedish professor and public debater Olle Häggström.

CAST IT: Kidneys, Cars, And Killer Robots

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29 March, 2017

In this podcast, Thore Husfeldt discusses AI and ethics with Australian AI researcher Toby Walsh.

CAST IT: Poker-Playing Bots

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14 March, 2017

In this podcast Thore Husfeldt talks to Associate Professor Troels Bjerre Lund, IT University of Copenhagen, a researcher in algorithmic game theory and a leading expert on artificial intelligence for poker.

Creative machines: The next frontier for artificial intelligence

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2 May, 2016

Artificial intelligence can solve routine tasks but still struggles to be creative or collaborate with us.

Artificial intelligence can compose video game music of the future

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7 April, 2016

Marco Scirea, a PhD student at the IT University of Copenhagen, won the best paper award at the EvoMUSART conference for his research on music composition using artificial intelligence.

Meet your new virtual pets

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21 September, 2015

Have online cat videos become a tad too predictable? Is your dog starting to bore you with the same old tricks? Soon you might be able to find new, entertaining alternatives in the virtual world.

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